Detachable bail.



E; HIGKBY. DETAUHABLE BAIL. APPLICATION FILED MAY s, 1909.

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EDWARD HICKEY, OF SAWYERS BAR, CALIFORNIA.

DETACI-IABLE BAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1910.

Application led May 6, 1909. Serial No. 494,307.

To all whom 'it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD I-IICKEY, citizen of the United States,residing at Sawyers Bar, in the county of Siskiyou and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in DetachableBails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a detachable bail and carrier for pails andother receptacles.

The object of the invention is to devise a simple, cheap, practical,detachable means for connecting a bail to a pail or the like.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectionof a bucket, showing the application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the clamp, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a front view ofsame.

A represents the clamp forming part of the invention, which clamp hastwo rigid, integrally connected clamp members 2 and 3. The fork orbifurcation thus formed by the clamp 2 3 is adapted to straddle the edgeof a pail 4 or other receptacle to which the invention is applicable.The member 2 is enlarged at the lower end and shaped into the form of aring 5.

6 is a clamp nut threaded in the lower end of the fork 3 andapproximately in axial line with the ring 5; and 7 is a washer or jawmember swiveled on the end of the screw 6, and movable with the screwtoward and from the ring. Preferabl the adjacent sides of the jawmembers 7 and 5 are corrugated, and also, preferably the member 7 is oftrifling less diameter than the hole in the member 5, so that when thescrew is tightened to cause the opposed jaw members 7 and 5 to grip theedge of the pail or vessel, the member 7 will act to concave slightlythe side of the vessel, and absolutely prevent the accidental detachmentof the clamp from the pail.

The clamp A is connected with any suitable form of a handle, andpreferably, as here shown, a bail 9 is adapted to be engaged in eyes 10suitably formed at the top of the clamp A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent isl 1. The combination with a bail having eyes formed atthe ends thereof, of a pair of detachable clamp members having eyesengaged by the eyes of the bail, and each of said clamp memberscomprising a forked portion to straddle the edge of the vessel to whichthe device is applied, one of the forks of each clamp having aring-shaped portion, and the other fork carrying a screw with a swiveledwasher arranged in axial line with the ring and movable toward and fromthe hole in said ring the opposed faces of Jtllie ring portion andwasher being roughene 2. The combination with a bail or the like, of adetachable connection comprisin a clamp having integrally formed forkemembers, one of said members having a ring-shaped portion, and the othermember carrying a threaded screw on which is swiveled a washer movabletoward and from the hole in said ring, said ring ortion having aslightly larger interior diameter than the outside diameter of thewasher, the opposed surfaces of the washer and ring portion beingcorrugated, and the upper end of the clamp member having an eye for theattachment of the bail.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

EDWARD HICKEY.

Witnesses:

ROGER GARBET'I, J. M. SINGLE.

